Word: functional
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attained knowledge, and on into regions yet unexplored. Not the teaching how to walk, nor yet the easy and rapid journeying along the beaten paths of knowledge, but the exploration of fields remote from the main lines of ordinary travel and the surveying of new territory, is the function of the university...
...resignation of our friend Dr. Andrew Peabody. The service has interested me from the first, as well it might. It was the daily religious service most distinguished in Christendom, as I think, and most remarkable for all those qualities of religious service which give distinction to any regular function. It was more fully attended, I suppose, than any regular meeting of men for worship in the world. Nothing could be asked more devout than the manner, and, on the whole, more earnest, than the purpose of the worshippers. The best arrangement that science knows how to make was made...
...function of the true university to encourage depth and broadness of thought in the men that it sends forth into the world, that they may save our American life from degenerating into a glittering barbarism of vulgarity...
...Though they may lose valuable men,- the Glee Club some singers, the Banjo and Pierian some instrumentalists, yet the general course of all of them is onward. They each fill their niche in the organism of the University; and it would be well if every other part performed its function as completely...
This is the grand object to be attained. The straight line is the physical sign of health and longevity, of perfect structure and harmony of function, and a symmetrical development of the whole body...